Albino Troll

Echo {1}{G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
{1}{G}: Regenerate Albino Troll.

There is no glory to be gained in the kingdom of the dead.
—Vec tomb inscription

Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Rainclouds don't last long in Shiv, but that doesn't stop the lightning.

Arc Lightning

If some of the creatures are illegal targets as Arc Lightning tries to resolve, the original division of damage still applies but no damage is dealt to the illegal targets. If all targets are illegal, Arc Lightning doesn’t resolve.

You choose how many targets Arc Lightning has and how the damage is divided as you cast the spell. Each target must receive at least 1 damage.

Arc Lightning deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

Avalanche Riders

Haste
Echo {3}{R} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
When Avalanche Riders enters the battlefield, destroy target land.

"The fishers will throw out their nets and draw them back filled with dust."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Boil

"I am reminded of the fable of the silver egg. Its owner cracks it open to see what jewels it holds, only to discover a simple yellow yolk."
—Karn, silver golem

Bottle Gnomes

Sacrifice Bottle Gnomes: You gain 3 life.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Carrion Beetles

If any of the targets are not there on resolution, the others are still affected.

You pick the 0, 1, 2, or 3 target cards on announcement.

{2}{B}, {T}: Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.

"One day we shall walk where once was water."
—Eladamri, Lord of Leaves

Choke

Islands don't untap during their controllers' untap steps.

"While we fought, the *il* surrendered."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

City of Traitors

City of Traitors does not trigger on itself being played.

City of Traitors does not trigger on lands that are put onto the battlefield without playing them.

When you play another land, sacrifice City of Traitors.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Constant Mists

Buyback—Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Corpse Dance

Corpse Dance only exiles the card if the card is still on the battlefield at the beginning of the end step.

The effect only grants Haste until the end of the current turn. If the creature somehow manages to stick around until a later turn, it will no longer have Haste.

Buyback {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Return the top creature card of your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.

Gatha survived as long as he did by giving all Keld's predators exactly what they wanted.

Covetous Dragon

The ability only checks if you control no artifacts at the time it triggers. It does not check again on resolution. So gaining control of an artifact before then will not save the Dragon.

The ability will trigger if you don’t control an artifact, even for a brief moment during the resolution of another spell or ability.

Flying
When you control no artifacts, sacrifice Covetous Dragon.

Cursed Scroll

If you have no cards in hand, you still have to name a card. Then you fail to reveal one (since there aren’t any). Since the named card wasn’t revealed, no damage is dealt.

{3}, {T}: Choose a card name, then reveal a card at random from your hand. If that card has the chosen name, Cursed Scroll deals 2 damage to any target.

"From void evolved Phyrexia. Great Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus The Grand Evolution began."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Dark Ritual

Greven *il*-Vec lifted Vhati off his feet. "The fall will give you time to think on your failure."

Diabolic Edict

"We decide who is worthy of our works."
—Gix, Yawgmoth praetor

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Earthquake

Whether or not a creature is without flying is only checked on resolution.

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Bring the spear of ancient briar;
Bring the torch to light the pyre.
Bring the one who trod our ground;
Bring the spade to dig his mound.

Elvish Lyrist

{G}, {T}, Sacrifice Elvish Lyrist: Destroy target enchantment.

Evincar's Justice

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Evincar's Justice deals 2 damage to each creature and each player.

Fire Diamond

Fire Diamond enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.

"Remember the moral of the fireslinger fable: with power comes isolation."
—Karn, silver golem

Fireslinger

{T}: Fireslinger deals 1 damage to any target and 1 damage to you.

Flowstone Flood

You can’t pay the Buyback cost unless you have at least one card in your hand to discard.

Buyback—Pay 3 life, Discard a card at random. (You may pay 3 life and discard a card at random in addition to any other costs as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Destroy target land.

Forest

"Here sprouted the first seedling of Argoth. Here the last tree will fall."
—Gamelen, Citanul elder

Gaea's Cradle

{T}: Add {G} for each creature you control.

Ghitu Encampment

A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature.

Activating the ability that turns it into a creature while it’s already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to a specific number. However, any effect that raises or lowers power and/or toughness (such as the effect created by Giant Growth, Glorious Anthem, or a +1/+1 counter) will continue to apply.

Ghitu Encampment enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {R}.
{1}{R}: Ghitu Encampment becomes a 2/1 red Warrior creature with first strike until end of turn. It's still a land. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)

Giant Growth

Target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.

Grim Monolith

Grim Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{4}: Untap Grim Monolith.

Hammer of Bogardan

Hammer of Bogardan deals 3 damage to any target.
{2}{R}{R}{R}: Return Hammer of Bogardan from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.

"I will flay the skin from your flesh and the flesh from your bones and scrape your bones dry. And still you will not have suffered enough."
—Greven *il*-Vec, to Gerrard

Hatred

The life payment is part of the cost to cast Hatred, so it is lost if this spell is countered.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn.

Hurricane

Whether or not a creature has flying is only checked on resolution.

Hurricane deals X damage to each creature with flying and each player.

Jackal Pup

Whenever Jackal Pup is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to you.

Karn, Silver Golem

The blocking ability triggers only once no matter how many blockers are declared.

Whenever Karn, Silver Golem blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn.
{1}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value until end of turn.

One bone broken for every twig snapped underfoot.
—Llanowar penalty for trespassing

Llanowar Elves

Masticore

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Masticore unless you discard a card.
{2}: Masticore deals 1 damage to target creature.
{2}: Regenerate Masticore.

The helix was the finest example of Mishra's campaign strategy: if he couldn't have Argoth, no one could.

Mishra's Helix

Mogg Fanatic

Once Mogg Fanatic has dealt and been dealt combat damage, it’s too late to activate its ability before it’s destroyed.

Sacrifice Mogg Fanatic: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Mountain

"You want to know your enemy? Look at your feet while you trample him."
—Tahngarth of the *Weatherlight*

Overrun

Overrun affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. It won’t affect creatures that come under your control later in the turn.

Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.

"There will come a time when the voices of soil and seedling will sing only laments."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Perish

Destroy all green creatures. They can't be regenerated.

"My finest warrior was lost to the Phyrexians. I pray that Lady Selenia died honorably."
—Radiant, archangel

Persecute

Choose a color. Target player reveals their hand and discards all cards of that color.

Phyrexian Negator

Sacrificing this card does not prevent you from having to make the other sacrifices.

Trample
Whenever Phyrexian Negator is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents.

"The final stage of the illness: delirium, convulsions, and death."
—Phyrexian progress notes

Phyrexian Plaguelord

{T}, Sacrifice Phyrexian Plaguelord: Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Phyrexian Processor

You can pay 0 life if you want, but it's not useful most of the time.

As Phyrexian Processor enters the battlefield, pay any amount of life.
{4}, {T}: Create an X/X black Phyrexian Minion creature token, where X is the life paid as Phyrexian Processor entered the battlefield.

Pillage

Destroy target artifact or land. It can't be regenerated.

One pounce, she's hungry—you die quickly. Two, she's teaching her cubs—you're in for a long day.

Pouncing Jaguar

Echo {G} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)

Powder Keg

Only destroys artifacts and creatures with exactly the specified cost. It does not mean “less than or equal to”.

Putting on a counter is optional. If you forget, you can’t go back later even if it is something you usually do.

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a fuse counter on Powder Keg.
{T}, Sacrifice Powder Keg: Destroy each artifact and creature with mana value equal to the number of fuse counters on Powder Keg.

"My people are bound by masters centuries dead. Each artifact we destroy is another link broken in that chain."
—Barb Tail, viashino heretic

Rack and Ruin

Rancor

If the creature this Aura would enchant is an illegal target by the time Rancor tries to resolve, the Aura spell doesn't resolve. It won't enter the battlefield, so it won't be put into a graveyard from the battlefield and its ability won't trigger.

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 and has trample.
When Rancor is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Rancor to its owner's hand.

The grave robbers arrived the day after the burial. They were a day too late.

Rapid Decay

You pick the cards during announcement. If any are not there on resolution, any others that are there are still affected.

Cycling is an activated ability. Effects that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle or Rings of Brighthearth) will interact with cycling. Effects that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul or Faerie Tauntings) will not.

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

"For all the priceless tomes they have destroyed, one would think they would taste better."
—Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Ravenous Rats

When Ravenous Rats enters the battlefield, target opponent discards a card.

"But no one heard the snake's gentle hiss for peace over the elephant's trumpeting of war."
—Afari, *Tales*

River Boa

Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
{G}: Regenerate River Boa.

"Shiv may be surrounded by water, but the mountains go far deeper."
—Fire Eye, viashino bey

Scald

Whenever a player taps an Island for mana, Scald deals 1 damage to that player.

Shattering Pulse

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Destroy target artifact.

Lightning tethers souls to the world.
—Kor saying

Shock

Spawning Pool

Spawning Pool enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}: Spawning Pool becomes a 1/1 black Skeleton creature with "{B}: Regenerate this creature" until end of turn. It's still a land. (If it regenerates, the next time it would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.)

Spellshock

Whenever a player casts a spell, Spellshock deals 2 damage to that player.

A sphere pushes equally in all directions.

Sphere of Resistance

Stone Rain

When the alliance between Balduvia and Kjeldor deprived Stromgald of easy victories, its agents were forced to fuel their rituals with their own flesh.

Stromgald Cabal

{T}, Pay 1 life: Counter target white spell.

There are medicines for all afflictions but idleness.
—Suq'Ata saying

Stupor

Target opponent discards a card at random, then discards a card.

Swamp

Temporal Aperture

If your library is shuffled or that card otherwise leaves the top of your library, the effect ends.

The card is removed from the top of the library when you play it, just like a card is removed from your hand when you play it.

While you do not have to pay the mana cost, you do have to pay any other costs described in the text that are paid when playing the card. If the cost in the card text is optional, such as with Buyback, you can optionally pay that cost.

{5}, {T}: Shuffle your library, then reveal the top card. Until end of turn, for as long as that card remains on top of your library, play with the top card of your library revealed and you may play that card without paying its mana cost. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

Urza's metathran children were conceived, birthed, and nurtured by an integrated system of machines.

Thran Dynamo

"What we do not use up, we use again."
—Urza

Thran Foundry

{1}, {T}, Exile Thran Foundry: Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Ticking Gnomes

Echo {3} (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
Sacrifice Ticking Gnomes: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Treetop Village

Treetop Village enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{1}{G}: Treetop Village becomes a 3/3 green Ape creature with trample until end of turn. It's still a land. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

"Is it true that the apes wear furs of gold when they marry?"
—Rana, Suq'Ata market fool

Uktabi Orangutan

When Uktabi Orangutan enters the battlefield, destroy target artifact.

"I write upon clean white parchment with a sharp quill and the blood of my students, divining their secrets."
—Shauku, Endbringer

Vampiric Tutor

The "shuffle and put the card on top" is a single action. If an effect causes the top card of the library to be face up, the second card down is not revealed.

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Volrath's Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

The key didn't work on a single lock, yet it opened many doors.

Voltaic Key

"The land promises nothing and keeps its promise."
—Oracle *en*-Vec

Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Wasteland: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Weatherseed Treefolk

Trample
When Weatherseed Treefolk dies, return it to its owner's hand.

Wild Dogs

Wild Dogs’s first ability will check life totals as your upkeep begins, before any player has the opportunity to take any actions. If no one player has more life than all other players at that time (i.e., if two or more players are tied for the most life), the ability won’t trigger at all. If the ability does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If no player has more life than all others by that point, the ability won’t have any effect. The player who had the most life as the ability triggered doesn’t have to be the same player as the one who has the most life as the ability resolves.

At the beginning of your upkeep, if a player has more life than each other player, the player with the most life gains control of Wild Dogs.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Card (100)	Type	^{$165.00 (0.00)} Price
Albino Troll - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ancient Tomb - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Ancient Tomb - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arc Lightning - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Arc Lightning - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Avalanche Riders - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Boil - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bottle Gnomes - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Bottle Gnomes - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Carrion Beetles - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Choke - gold - 1997	Enchantment	$0.00 ^(0.00)
City of Traitors - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Constant Mists - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Corpse Dance - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Covetous Dragon - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cursed Scroll - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cursed Scroll - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cursed Scroll - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Cursed Scroll - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Dark Ritual - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Diabolic Edict - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Duress - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Earthquake - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Elvish Lyrist - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Evincar's Justice - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fire Diamond - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fireslinger - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Fireslinger - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Flowstone Flood - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Forest - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Gaea's Cradle - gold - 1997	Land	$125.00 ^(0.00)
Ghitu Encampment - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Giant Growth - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Grim Monolith - gold - 1997	Artifact	$20.00 ^(0.00)
Hammer of Bogardan - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hatred - gold - 1997	Instant	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Hurricane - gold - 1997	Sorcery	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Jackal Pup - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Karn, Silver Golem - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Llanowar Elves - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Masticore - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Masticore - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Helix - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mishra's Helix - gold - 1997	Artifact	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mogg Fanatic - gold - 1997	Creature	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mountain - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mountain - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)
Mountain - gold - 1997	Land	$0.00 ^(0.00)

World Championship Decks 1999